Interior floor pics after downpipe install?
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Cargo Master
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Interior floor pics after downpipe install?
Does anyone have interior floorboard pics taken after the pinch weld has been modified for clearance for a downpipe installation?
Thanks!!
Thanks!!
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Cargo Master
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Call me ****, but if you saw the overall great and near bone-stock condition that the previous owner kept this truck in you too would wince at smushing and smashing the aluminum insulation blanket just to bend the steel underneath it.
This truck has an aluminum insulation blanket on the firewall that covers the offending pinch weld. Removing the insulation blanket without removing the engine appears to be impossible.
My thought is to cut the few inches of the protruding seam by cutting the necessary area of the floorboard/firewall from the inside. I have the patience and can McGyver the tools to do it, just need to know where to provide the clearance.
Pictures from the interior or even from the underside of installed downpipes are greatly appreciated!
This truck has an aluminum insulation blanket on the firewall that covers the offending pinch weld. Removing the insulation blanket without removing the engine appears to be impossible.
My thought is to cut the few inches of the protruding seam by cutting the necessary area of the floorboard/firewall from the inside. I have the patience and can McGyver the tools to do it, just need to know where to provide the clearance.
Pictures from the interior or even from the underside of installed downpipes are greatly appreciated!
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Cargo Master
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From: Denton, TX
I'll put some big-boy undies on and take another look.
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Tearing into the floor will be a lot more disruptive than mushing up the blanket. All you're doing is making more cuts, and thus introducing more places for rust to form.
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Call me ****, but if you saw the overall great and near bone-stock condition that the previous owner kept this truck in you too would wince at smushing and smashing the aluminum insulation blanket just to bend the steel underneath it.
This truck has an aluminum insulation blanket on the firewall that covers the offending pinch weld. Removing the insulation blanket without removing the engine appears to be impossible.
My thought is to cut the few inches of the protruding seam by cutting the necessary area of the floorboard/firewall from the inside. I have the patience and can McGyver the tools to do it, just need to know where to provide the clearance.
Pictures from the interior or even from the underside of installed downpipes are greatly appreciated!
This truck has an aluminum insulation blanket on the firewall that covers the offending pinch weld. Removing the insulation blanket without removing the engine appears to be impossible.
My thought is to cut the few inches of the protruding seam by cutting the necessary area of the floorboard/firewall from the inside. I have the patience and can McGyver the tools to do it, just need to know where to provide the clearance.
Pictures from the interior or even from the underside of installed downpipes are greatly appreciated!
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Cargo Master
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Thanks RÖENTGEEP, the pics help. And the other's input as well...many thanks!
The blanket comes down to, and doesn't cover the lip as I remembered. I see now how this can be bent without the damage I was worried about.
But the thin aluminum sheet that has staples in it does wrap upwards over the lip and is riveted to the lip. I can remove the rivets, bend the lip and reattach the sheet.
Does the replacement down pipe follow the stock routing so the focus is to make clearance for a hypothetical stock pipe that was round instead of flat?
The blanket comes down to, and doesn't cover the lip as I remembered. I see now how this can be bent without the damage I was worried about.
But the thin aluminum sheet that has staples in it does wrap upwards over the lip and is riveted to the lip. I can remove the rivets, bend the lip and reattach the sheet.
Does the replacement down pipe follow the stock routing so the focus is to make clearance for a hypothetical stock pipe that was round instead of flat?
Last edited by LeoJr; Dec 21, 2012 at 11:07 PM. Reason: spelun
FOREIGN GURU
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Thanks RÖENTGEEP, the pics help. And the other's input as well...many thanks!
The blanket comes down to, and doesn't cover the lip as I remembered. I see now how this can be bent without the damage I was worried about.
But the thin aluminum sheet that has staples in it does wrap upwards over the lip and is riveted to the lip. I can remove the rivets, bend the lip and reattach the sheet.
Does the replacement down pipe follow the stock routing so the focus is to make clearance for a hypothetical stock pipe that was round instead of flat?
The blanket comes down to, and doesn't cover the lip as I remembered. I see now how this can be bent without the damage I was worried about.
But the thin aluminum sheet that has staples in it does wrap upwards over the lip and is riveted to the lip. I can remove the rivets, bend the lip and reattach the sheet.
Does the replacement down pipe follow the stock routing so the focus is to make clearance for a hypothetical stock pipe that was round instead of flat?
You are welcome.
Yes to that question.
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I used a porta power and still had to cut the heatshield junk. That stuff is STRONG.
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